Cavern Of Anti-Matter premiere video for new single ‘liquid gate’ featuring Bradford Cox

04 February 2016

CoAM

The chances are that you have already heard us raving about Tim Gane’s band Cavern of Anti-Matter, and there’s good reason for that. With void beats/invocation trex, their much-anticipated debut album, slated for release later this month, the Berlin based three-piece got us salivating with two tremendous singles, the stunning and radiant ‘Melody In High Feedback Tones’ and the epic krautrock infused opener ‘Tardis Cymbals’. To whet our appetite even more, the three-piece have unveiled a new single from the album, the psychedelic pop cut ‘liquid gate’ featuring Bradford Cox on vocals. The track comes paired with a fittingly kaleidoscopic video, directed by Peter Strickland. Watch it below and watch out for the release of void beats/invocation trex on February 19th via Duophonic.

In celebration of the album release, Cavern Of Anti-Matter have announced a run of European dates in February and March, including a show in London on February 29th at The Moth Club. See the full run of dates below.

25 Feb 2016 – Generiq @ le FJT des Oiseaux, Besançon, France
26 Feb 2016 – Generiq @ Cellier de Clairvaux, Dijon, France
27 Feb 2016 – Festival La Route Du Rock, St Malo, France
29 Feb 2016 – The Moth Club, London, UK, tickets
01 Mar 2016 – The Paradiso, Amsterdam. Netherlands
11 Mar 2016 – Kantine am Berghain, Berlin , Germany
3 Jun 2016 – Primavera Sound Festival, Barcelona, Spain

Massive Attack drop Ritual Spirit EP and premiere new video

01 February 2016

Massive Attack

Good news for fans of trip-hop pioneers Massive Attack, who released a new EP, Ritual Spirit, last Friday. Featuring four tracks, the EP was written and produced by Massive Attack’s Robert del Naja and long-term studio collaborator Euan Dickinson and it marks their first new material since 2011’s Heligoland. Ritual Spirit also marks the return of friend and collaborator Tricky who features on the EP, as does Roots Manuva and Young Fathers.
Ritual Spirit precedes another EP written and co-produced by Daddy G, due in the Spring, and a full-length album set to be released later in the year.
Coinciding with EP release, Massive Attack have unveiled a video for ‘Take It There’ featuring Tricky. Hiro Murai directs.

Massive Attack’s Ritual Spirit EP is out now via Virgin/EMI.

Suuns announce third album Hold/Still, share video for first single ‘Translate’

31 January 2016

Suuns - Hold StillThree years after their last album, and following last year’s collaborative album with Jerusalem in My Heart which was one of our 15 Picks of the Year, Suuns are back with their third album, Hold/Still. The Montreal quartet recorded the album in Dallas, Texas over the course of three weeks with John Congleton on production duties. Played as a suite of music, Hold/Still has no overdubbing with Congleton driving them to capture perfect live takes, as the press release explains.

Suuns are giving us the first taste of the album with the excellent and driving first single ‘Translate’. In the works for years and one of the last songs to be finished, it mirrors well the sound of the album – “the sound of a band working in mental lockstep, crafting guitar music that feels unbeholden to clear traditions or genre brackets”. ‘Translate’ comes with a video shot by longtime collaborator Charles-André Coderre, who’s also one half of Jerusalem In My Heart. This is the first of a trilogy of videos for the album, with the other two instalments set to emerge ahead of the album release on April 15th through Secret City in Canada and Secretly Canadian in the rest of the world. Coderre had this to say about the video:

“’Translate’, the first music video of a triptych series, is an incandescent vision. It was shot with thermal imagery. The concept was simple: film the band in their rehearsal space and transfigure the footage into something unusual and gorgeous. We experimented the different meanings of the word “translate” and explored a new film language by shooting what the human eye can’t see”.

Here’s the video.

To celebrate the album release, Suuns will embark on a world tour kicking off on March 13th at the Tremor Festival in the Azores Island, Portugal and including a London show at the ICA on May 24th.

Three Trapped Tigers return with second album Silent Earthling and announce UK tour

28 January 2016

Three Trapped Tigers- Silent EarthlingStop whatever you’re doing for some long-awaited news: Three Trapped Tigers have a new album on the way, their first since their 2011’s mighty debut Route One or Die. Entitled Silent Earthling, the effort arrives on April 1st via Superball Music.
The trio may not have released an album in nearly five years, but they have been busy with a multitude of other unique projects, stellar collaborations and touring, all of which helped to shape the new album. They were part of an electro-orchestral, multi-media reworking of Joy Division material, played Goldie’s album Timeless at the Royal Festival Hall, performed the Blade Runner soundtrack, and have also played with bands like Deftones and Dillinger Escape Plan, to name a few. Whilst writing Silent Earthling, Three Trapped Tigers worked with Underworld’s Karl Hyde and Brian Eno, whose ‘Oblique Strategies’ cards were employed and proved instrumental in “forcing the group out of their comfort zones”, as the label describes.
“I think the problem for anyone striving to create their own sound is, once you – hopefully – have achieved that, how do you expand that whilst maintaining it?”, said guitarist and keyboard player Matt Calvert. “Some of the tunes are quite aggressive, some are poignant, some are just dumb, rocking fun… I guess we have tried to refine our sound whilst keeping it vital and exciting.”

We had the immense privilege to see them perform the entire album from beginning to end in a special show in London last June, which makes us all the more anxious to get our hands on Silent Earthling. Luckily, the band have shared the first single to be taken from the record, the monumental title track. Here it is.

To celebrate the album’s release, Three Trapped Tigers have also announced a run of dates across the UK beginning mid April in Glasgow and including a show in London at Scala on April 28th. See the full run of dates below.

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Denovali Records announces the release of Orson Hentschel’s debut album Feed The Tape

26 January 2016

Orson Hentschel - Feed The TapeDenovali‘s first release of the year comes from the hands of Düsseldorf based composer and producer Orson Hentschel. Feed The Tape, his debut album, will see the light of day on February 26th.

Classically trained on the piano from a young age, Hentschel’s compositions see him exploring and employing unconventional techniques. Classical minimal music is a major influence on the album, in particular Steve Reich’s compository methods like phase variations, looping and imitation. “These methods serve as characteristic compository elements rather than being in the focus of the pieces”, says the label. “The loop, which often is the starting point of one of Hentschels works, usually plays the role of a constant sound substrate on which harmonic-melodic elements can thrive.”

Ahead of the album’s release, we can already hear the spectacular first single ‘What’s Going On’.


In other related news, Orson Hentschel has announced a string of shows in Germany next month and he will also grace both Berlin and London’s editions of Denovali Festival in April.